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i am grateful from them and i hope our contribution to britain but when they also be. above all, i hope we will come to understand of the past and present them from happening again. and in the years ahead, we are still the nation's trust in our company and all the great journalism. i'm committed to do everything in my power to make this happen. thank you. >> thank you. can i on behalf of the committee think you for giving so much of your time to come here and i would like to apologize again. >> thank you, mr. schramm. >> the committee will now have a break for five minutes. >> [inaudible conversations] >> the former head of rupert murdoch's's newspapers rebekah brooks was arrested sunday in the phone hacking investigation british prime minister now former news international's chief executive rebekah brooks testifies about the phone hacking and police bribery investigation. ms. brooks also served as an editor of the now closed news of the world. she was called before the british media culture sport committee which is chaired by john whittingdale. >> we have now come to
i am grateful from them and i hope our contribution to britain but when they also be. above all, i hope we will come to understand of the past and present them from happening again. and in the years ahead, we are still the nation's trust in our company and all the great journalism. i'm committed to do everything in my power to make this happen. thank you. >> thank you. can i on behalf of the committee think you for giving so much of your time to come here and i would like to apologize...
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it's one the biggest operations in britain today. >> mr. eric crenshaw? >> mr. speaker, can i for one congratulate the prime minister and the other party leaders on the scope. i want to follow a point by the honorable defendant as to why the police in terms of police heavy is just dealing with the metropolitan police when it seems to us a cultural tradition across all police forces to have the tight relationship with the favorite journalist and whether in the short term the secretary could talk to chief constables about starts their own procedures. >> the honorable gentleman makes a good point. first of all, the inquiry will look across and make recommendations across all police police police forces about the lessons that it learns. there's an opportunity for the mets to take leadership role. >> the prime minister said on several occasions to follow the evidence trail wherever it leads. if that includes to the proprietors of news international, which ever media groups, is it not the case we should be hardening the terms of evidence and is it the prime
it's one the biggest operations in britain today. >> mr. eric crenshaw? >> mr. speaker, can i for one congratulate the prime minister and the other party leaders on the scope. i want to follow a point by the honorable defendant as to why the police in terms of police heavy is just dealing with the metropolitan police when it seems to us a cultural tradition across all police forces to have the tight relationship with the favorite journalist and whether in the short term the...
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good night. >> live coverage of the phone hacking scandal in britain continues here on c-span2 with a live hearing tomorrow focusing on the metropolitan police investigations into phone hacking including remarks from senior police officials. live coverage at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. later, rupert murdoch and his son james along with former news international exec ever becker brooks testified that the parliamentary committee about allegations of phone hacking and police bribery connected to mr. murdochs newspaper. that is live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. the supreme court is now available as a standard and enhanced e-book at --
good night. >> live coverage of the phone hacking scandal in britain continues here on c-span2 with a live hearing tomorrow focusing on the metropolitan police investigations into phone hacking including remarks from senior police officials. live coverage at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. later, rupert murdoch and his son james along with former news international exec ever becker brooks testified that the parliamentary committee about allegations of phone hacking and police bribery...
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>> britain is not in the euro and while i am prime minister, it will never be in the euro so we should not be involved in those internal arrangements. only eurozone countries were involved. only eurozone countries have been involved about further bailouts. it is right not to use the european financial stability mechanism for future support to greece. >> what discussions did he have about preparing for that the fault? in particular with the president who has said in the context of departure from the euro and the devolution of the monetary union, it does not have to be disorderly. >> what is causing disorder as instability in europe. it is the fact that cannot be changed. if greece can default. good money will be wasted failure of greece. why wasn't the prime minister your normal skeptical self and lead an orderly withdrawal? >> checks seem to be a it endangers species sincethey were in terminal decline. the council said there is no alternative. the council did not look too happy when they came before the treasury committee. >> it is a imperative as working to have a viable set of of tre
>> britain is not in the euro and while i am prime minister, it will never be in the euro so we should not be involved in those internal arrangements. only eurozone countries were involved. only eurozone countries have been involved about further bailouts. it is right not to use the european financial stability mechanism for future support to greece. >> what discussions did he have about preparing for that the fault? in particular with the president who has said in the context of...
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that this was craziness for britain to do it and it was the pity of war. wait a minute. that historian was niall ferguson. >> yes, before we end the rebuttal portion of this debate, i'd like to allow dr. kissinger the last word. >> i don't know whether one can reverse the order of participants up here, because i think it's three to one against my friend niall. our chinese friend is saying that china has suffered a great deal, has been provoked through a century of western exploitations and that it's not trying to dominate the world. as i understand what he is saying it is this -- when the west wants to discuss climate or the financial assistance, our tendency is to say china can be a stakeholder. it can be a participant in a system they did not themselves participate in creating. so the issue is whether it is possible to create an international system in which china participates in the creation of it without dominating it. this is really what we're debating here. and if i understand the observations of our chinese colleague, he's not saying that china will dominate the w
that this was craziness for britain to do it and it was the pity of war. wait a minute. that historian was niall ferguson. >> yes, before we end the rebuttal portion of this debate, i'd like to allow dr. kissinger the last word. >> i don't know whether one can reverse the order of participants up here, because i think it's three to one against my friend niall. our chinese friend is saying that china has suffered a great deal, has been provoked through a century of western...
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>> in great britain a few years ago, they undertook a social security reform and they actually had a white paper study on what they should do. they concluded that it would be useful to try to increase private savings at the same time as they did social security reform. it increased benefits in the public system, but even there, they decided that was not enough. to really help people, we really needed to build the private pension savings. if you look at the private pension system, it covers fairly poorly most of the population. i have not quite updated it, but it says that for 75% of people that retire, social security and medicare is in excess of all of their private assets. we have a larger extent of the population dependent upon social security and medicare. how do we deal with it? one way we do what it is be tried to increase some of those cash benefits for lower and moderate income people. from the middle-income people, i do not think we can get thereby adding to a system that is out of balance. we need to recognize that private retirement system is not doing a good job of coveri
>> in great britain a few years ago, they undertook a social security reform and they actually had a white paper study on what they should do. they concluded that it would be useful to try to increase private savings at the same time as they did social security reform. it increased benefits in the public system, but even there, they decided that was not enough. to really help people, we really needed to build the private pension savings. if you look at the private pension system, it...